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Tuesday, April 27, 1976
Pro contract tempts KU golf ace
Boozer won state junior titles in 1971 and 1974
By KEN STONE
Beth Boozer checked her lie, tested the wind on the hilly Columbia, Mo., golf course, eyed the angles of her two-a-fand shot and settled into her putting stance.
She did everything she normally does for a crucial 18th hole stroke except one thing. She missed.
"IT WAS THAT I LAST Hate that it did to me," said Booster, who led the University of Kansas women's golf team to a second national title. "Eight championships last weekend."
After Friday's first round of 18 holes, Boozer had been tied with Lindsay Wetzel of Oklahoma and Patty Livingston of Oklahoma State with 81 each.
"I got on the green in three, and then three-putted. I knew I had to make that to win," she said.
BUT ON SATURDAY, the weather turned cold and sour, as did Boozer's luck. After jumping into a six stroke lead Metzel on the front nine, she fell apart.
"She *i Wetel*) came off a 39, a two over par, and I had a 45," said Boozer of last nine holes Saturday. "She was really hot. I wasn't playing well that day. I three-putted three greens, and you not supposed to do that."
So after 36 holes of golf, and after "climbing hill after hill," Boozer and Wetzel, tied at 146, went into a sudden death play. The coup de grace came when Boozer blew an approach shot on the second hole.
WETTEL, A GOLFER who booster had beaten earlier in the year at a dual match with Oklahoma at Norman, won the tournament.
"I'd say I played only six out of the whole 36 holes poorly," said Boozer yesterday. "I thought I was playing pretty well most of the time."
Since Saturday's defeat, Boozer hasn't spent her time moping about her loss. Yesterday—like almost every day this year—the was back on the course.
"The year I've put in more hours of practice than ever before," said Booster, a sophomore, whose mother, Nancy, is the KU women's golf coach. "Today I went out at 3:00 and hit 200 balls at the practice range at Alvamar."
SHE WANT'S OUT swatting golf balls for nothing, however. Her mind may have been fixed on something else—such as a chance to play in Tokyo next fall.
"It I play well this summer, I have a contract waiting for me with Uni Managers International," she said. "I called over Christmas. Their agents that if I did well this summer in the big championships we'll be talking to me."
Uni-Managers International, Boomer said, also manages PGA professional Johnny Miller, among others. She said she wasn't sure of what she'd be doing for play exhibitions at the annual capacity of playing exhibition matches in Japan and doing some public relations work.
Boozer also admitted it would mean something else.
"I DON'T KNOW the money involved, but I know I'd be going to Tokyo," she said.
"If I turned pro, she said my amateur standing," she said. "It would mean I would be coming back to school. It's a job I did in college." But if it was it, I took the part.
One reason Boomer might want to stay and finish school is that she's been offered a full scholarship to continue playing for KU. She even was offered the volleyball team - she was a starter for KU last year—but she turned it down.
ANOTHER REASON for staying in school is a chance to travel to another Pacific island, Hawaii. The 1977 women's tournament will be played there, she said.
But right now, the most important thing on her mind is to play well in the Kansas women's state championships in mid-June and in the AIW golf championships a week later at East Lansing, Mich.
"I'm looking forward to the state, and beyond that to the intercollegiate, where I hope to place in the top 10," said Boozer, twin a winner of the title juniors title.
"If I don't get the contract, I'll finish school and try for the LPGA (Ladies' Professional Golf Association) tour when I graduate," she said.
What happens if she doesn't burn up the greens and fairways this summer?
The KU men's golf team finished 18th in an 18-team field in the Drake Relays Golf Tournament last Thursday and Friday in Des Moines.
Golfers miss bottom by 3
It was the first tournament this spring in which Kansas avoided a last-place finish. The Jayhawks previously had placed last in both the Oklahoma Intercollegiate Tournament in Shawne, Okla, and the Great Plains Tournament in Wichita.
IOWA EDGED TULISA for the Drake Relays title by only one stroke. Iowa finished with a 90% total for the 54 holes of play and Tulsa had 906.
Southern Illinois finished third at 914 and New Mexico State was fourth at 915. KU's
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CHICAGO (AP)—The National League rejected expansion to Toronto and Washington, D.C., yesterday, tossing the ball back to the American League, which already has voted to place a team in Toronto in 1977.
"Well, I guess it's back in my lap," a disappointed Commissioner Bowie Kuhn said in New York when told of the NL decision.
National League President Chuck Feeney said seven teams voted to expand to Toronto.
and Washington, D.C., and five voted against the idea. Because the NI, constitution requires a unanimous vote for expansion, the five votes vetoed the proposal.
When asked whether the negative vote meant the American League would be moving into Toronto, Feeney said, "There is nothing to stop them."
Kuhn had ordered the AL to include an acceptable formula for playing games in Washington along with its expansion to Toronto, a proposal the AL rejected.
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